Personal Concerns

After our intial GO WILD session, these were the issues that arose in our brainstorm.

Topic	How many people concerned?	Topic	How many people concerned?	Topic	How many people concerned?
Bullying -including text bullying	7	Family putdowns	1	Love / crushes	3
Quality Learning (success at school)	3	Money	15	Being fat	4
Drugs and Alcohol (Teenage drinking)	8	Life in general	2	Lying	1
Friendships -fights -friends changing -friends leaving -being lonely/teased/liked	19	My future job - will I get one?	6	Fighting	1
Health -cancer -illneses	5	Racism	3	Fashion -wearing the right thing	3
Relationships with parents	7	Guns	4	School	7
Family Violence and Protection including child abuse	4	Smoking	2	Puberty	4
Animal Cruelty	1	The future	3	Death	3
Respect	1	Peer pressure	3	Earthquakes	2
Motherhood	3	Family dying	1	Looking after myself	1
Robbery/Burglary	3	Gangs	4	Swearing	5

Local Concerns

Topic	How many people concerned?	Topic	How many people concerned?
Gangs and Gang Violence	29	School / Education	3
Tagging and Grafitti Vandalsim	20	Fights / Hurting people	2
Bullies	7	Bad/Dangerous People	2
Kidnapping	5	Parties	2
Burglary and stealing	9	Police	1
Loss of money	3	Driving	1
Pollution and litter	5	Swearing in public	1
Drugs and drug abuse	11	Death	3
Youth trouble - drinking and smoking	3	Alcohol	6
Prices of food and oil	8	Social learning	1
Housing and traffic	2	Drink driving	3
Obesity	1	Gossiping/respect	1
Smoking	5	Family violence	3
Losing jobs	1	Crime - murders	4

National Concerns

Topic	How many people concerned?	Topic	How many people concerned?	Topic	How many people concerned?
Child Abuse	5	Police	2	Elections	7
Taxes	1	University costs	4	Cost of living	1
Youth suicides	2	Gangs	6	Obesity	4
Native animals becoming extinct	2	Learning Environments	1	Smoking	1
Parliament	3	Drugs and drug wars	10	Violent crime - kidnapping, murder	5
Party Pills	2	The environment - keeping NZ clean	2	Natural disasters	5
Violence	5	Animal Cruelty - testing	4	Car crashes	6
Teenage Drinking	5	Price of electricity	2	Poverty	4
Petrol prices	7	Burglary/Robbery	3	Failing businesses	3
Rising food prices	16	Drink driving	5	Respect - including bullying	5
Pollution and litter	7	Families breaking down	2	Health - cancer	4

Global Concerns

Topic	How many people concerned?	Topic	How many people concerned?
Pollution	10	Price of Oil	5
Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, tornados	5	Terrorism	6
Global Warming	35	Nuclear Power -bombs and testing	3
Child Abuse and their rights	5	Starvation and malnutriton in countries around the world	15
Black Holes in Space	3	Whaling	2
Animal Cruelty - including animal testing	9	Communism	1
Wars including potential for World War 3	11	Animal extinction / poachers	3
World Food Crisis	6	Mafia - gangs - growing and spreading	3
Drugs -use of	9	Serious crimes - murder, rape The level of violence in our world.	15
Death	1	Chinese made goods and the problems with these.	1
Child Obesity	4	Helping Agencies	3
World Economy -money / stock market	7	Human rights - sweat shops - political freedom - discrimination	12